Martin Baron | Andrew Leland | Stephen McCauley | Paul Muldoon | Ruth Reichl | Anna Shechtman
Martin Baron
Martin Baron is a longtime journalist and newspaper editor. He ran the newsrooms of The Miami Herald and The Boston Globe before being named executive editor of The Washington Post in 2013. His role at the Globe in launching an investigation of the Catholic Church’s cover-up of sexual abuse by clergy was portrayed in the Academy Award-winning movie “Spotlight.” Baron retired from daily journalism in early 2021 and now splits his time between Western Massachusetts and New York City. Collision of Power is his first book.
Andrew Leland
Andrew Leland has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Quarterly, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets. From 2013 to 2019, he hosted and produced The Organist, an arts and culture podcast, for KCRW in Los Angeles; he has also produced pieces for Radiolab and 99 Percent Invisible. He has been an editor at The Believer since 2003. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and son. His first book, The Country of the Blind, was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in memoir. Visit his website.
Stephen McCauley
You Only Call When You’re in Trouble is Stephen McCauley’s eighth novel. Previous works include national bestsellers My Ex-Life, The Object of My Affection, and Alternatives to Sex. Three of his books have been made into feature films. The New York Times Book Review dubbed him “the secret love child of Edith Wharton and Woody Allen,” and the French Ministry of Culture named him a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters. He currently co-directs the Creative Writing program at Brandeis University. Visit his website.
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for 30 years. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore is his fifteenth full-length collection of poetry. Earlier collections include Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize; Selected Poems 1968–2014; and Howdie-Skelp. His poetry has been translated into 20 languages. Visit his website.
Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl is The New York Times bestselling author of five memoirs, two works of fiction (The Paris Novel and Delicious!), and the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and previously served as restaurant critic for The New York Times, as well as food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards, including the 2024 Honorable James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award. Visit her website.
Anna Shechtman
Anna Shechtman is an assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. She published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, helped to spearhead the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. In addition to her bimonthly crosswords for The New Yorker, she has written for a number of outlets, including ArtForum, The New Inquiry, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Slate, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she is an editor-at-large. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her website.
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